WildHeart

One is Not Enough Performance with Nita Little
2025-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
All intelligence is collective intelligence.

Michael Levin

With a focus on practices of physical attention developed from Contact Improv and explored in the Ensemble Dancing setting, this 35 minute dance driven project engages actions of trance in finding, organizing, and creating new modes of physical attention and communication – defining the human by our relational practices of intelligence.

Lead choreographer Nita Little, in co-creation with Hudson Valley based choreographers- Neva Cockrell, clyde fusei forth, Leighann Kowalsky, Nuria Bowart and more guide local Hudson Valley dancers- Karina Mehta, Cam Moreno, Lauren Mark, Nikita Patel, Glenna Yu, Mandy Hackman, Gabrielle Revlock, Laure Marin, Christine Bornath and Timna Jahoda-Kligler through a score-based premiere.

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Exploring intelligence here, means working on notions of the multiple self to reveal the environmentally entangled human oriented toward being made different by more than human circumstances and the new knowledge that unveils. Actions of investigation and communication between dancers are scored through directed attention acting as a refractive lens that articulates serious states of play. This compositional project is highly dependent upon dancers who have choreographic skills to be able to move away from a dominant visual concern and into other levels of articulation and compositional choice making. Adding exteroception to the definition of the somatic, scores for improvisations organize physical attention across bodies and include set materials that shape the space.

This work is collaborative on every scale of making, in its production and performance. Driving the timeline is an edit of a lecture by James Bridle, Planetary Intelligence. This auditory focus sustains an investigation of the definition of intelligence, as an ability to communicate on the level of communion, not just an ability to speak or send messages. Six to ten dancer/choreographers will each be given sections of this lecture in advance to develop scores in collaboration with dancers of their choosing that nest and weave together, forming the fabric of this performance. The goal is a 35 minute work that embeds the audience in explorations, articulations and evaluations of intelligence, not as a thing, but as a process, not as a single being, but as a collective of beings.

Accessibility: Most of the performance will take place in the Barn, which has a wide and level entrance and is wheelchair accessible. Weather depending, there may be part of the performance that takes place by the lake, which is a 5ish minute walk down a grassy hill, that is somewhat steep and uneven ground. There is an option to drive down to the lake as well. There are no fully ADA accessible bathrooms onsite. If you have further questions about accessibility please reach out Contact@WildHeartCenter.art.

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Vocal Tapestry: Spring Class Series
2025-04-28 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-05 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-12 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-19 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-26 18:00 - 19:30

Rise & Shine with Niki
2025-04-29 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-05-06 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-05-13 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-05-20 08:30 - 09:30
Rise & Shine with Niki (in-person or online)8.30-9.30am Tuesday mornings (50 mins)Rise & Shine – Kickstart your day with this class by working with your body & breath. A physical practice that focuses on strength, flexibility, breath and balance through static or linked poses, mandala flows, and challenging ‘peak pose’ flows to bring you into your bodies and onto your mats, leaving you blissfully energized and ready for your day. We will use Hatha & Vinyasa yoga to help improve internal and external stability. While some knowledge of basic yoga asanas can be helpful, it doesn’t matter where you are on your yoga journey, by attending regularly you will benefit from advancing your yoga practice and challenging yourself daily. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-04-30 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-07 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-14 18:00 - 19:30
Yin-Restore with Niki (in-person or online)

6-7.30pm Tuesday evenings starting November 5th (90 mins)

A Yin/ Restorative practice that uses props & longer holding poses to stimulate the ‘relaxation response’. I aim to hold space for folks and guide them to play with their edge, release control and let gravity do the work. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.

$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Deep Listening Series
2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-08 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-15 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-22 18:00 - 19:30

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-05-04 16:00 - 18:30, 2025-05-18 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

First and Third Sundays

4:00-6:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays in Kingston!)

BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward

CI Lab 4-5pm (with rotating teachers)

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

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Or if you prefer to pay cash at the door, send us an email to let us know you’re coming, so we can help you find your way to the studio.

Overnight guests welcome (with advance notice). Let us know if you want to make a longer visit to WildHeart… email contact@wildheartcenter.art

Weeks that we’re not Jamming @ WildHeart, Hudson Valley Contact Improv continues in Kingston. Email Hudsonvalleycontactimprov@gmail.com for more on the Kingston Jam

Location- This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info. Refund policy No refunds, no transfers

Online (May 6 only) - Rise & Shine with Niki
2025-05-06 08:30 - 09:30
Rise & Shine with Niki (in-person or online)8.30-9.30am Tuesday mornings (50 mins)Rise & Shine – Kickstart your day with this class by working with your body & breath. A physical practice that focuses on strength, flexibility, breath and balance through static or linked poses, mandala flows, and challenging ‘peak pose’ flows to bring you into your bodies and onto your mats, leaving you blissfully energized and ready for your day. We will use Hatha & Vinyasa yoga to help improve internal and external stability. While some knowledge of basic yoga asanas can be helpful, it doesn’t matter where you are on your yoga journey, by attending regularly you will benefit from advancing your yoga practice and challenging yourself daily. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Just for today, Tuesday May 6th, this class will be held virtually only (no class in person) please register online or email contact@wildheartcenter.art to receive the link to join the class.

Online (May 7 only) - Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-05-07 18:00 - 19:30
Yin-Restore with Niki (in-person or online)

6-7.30pm Tuesday evenings starting November 5th (90 mins)

A Yin/ Restorative practice that uses props & longer holding poses to stimulate the ‘relaxation response’. I aim to hold space for folks and guide them to play with their edge, release control and let gravity do the work. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.

$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Just for today, Wednesday May 7th, this class will be held virtually only (no class in person) please register online or email contact@wildheartcenter.art to receive the link to join the class.

Ameri-clecti-cana Performance
2025-05-09 19:30 - 21:00
In this upside-down world, The Downside Up has made it our mission to boost your spirits with our signature Americlecticana sound – a dash of country, a dollop of blues, a splash of jazz, and a spoonful of rootsy rock.

One February day in 2023, Al, Amy and Evan met in Evan’s living room to learn some tunes and find a common sound.

What we’ve birthed over two years of writing and rehearsing, pop-up shows, potlucks, and parties is deeper and wider than we ever imagined

Sometimes souls operate at cross purposes. Sometimes purposes cross and souls cooperate. Downside Up is a case of the latter.

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Downside Up

Recording engineer, producer, songwriter, bassist and environmentalist Al Hemberger owns and operates The Loft Recording Studios in Bronxville, NY, which has recorded many gold and platinum songs and hosted hundreds of artists, from Rihanna to Rod Stewart to NSync. Google him for more info.

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Beacon songwriter and chanteuse Amy Soucy studied musical theater and more, but found her home and honed her chops in the folk scene. Her first album won her a coveted Emerging Artist spot at Falcon Ridge Folk Fest and 1st place in CT Folk’s Song Competition.

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Guitarist Evan Schwartz predates YouTube and electronic tuners. He learned to play guitar at “the local blues jam,” where they throw you into the fire and you learn or burn.

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WildHeart is located on 46+ beautiful acres in the Hudson Valley at 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY. This event will take place in the Barn, the large building at the end of the driveway. You can park in either of the two parking areas on the right side of the driveway before you get to the Barn. There are also a few spots in front of the Barn. More info about directions and transportation options HERE.

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In advance of 2 weeks – full refund (less processing fee)

Within 2 weeks – no refund

(This policy stands even in case of sickness so we encourage participants to plan accordingly)

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Shake with Niki
2025-05-11 16:30 - 17:30
Shake with Niki (in-person only)

4:30 – 5:30pm Second Sunday of every month, starting November 10th (60-75 mins)

Group Shake – A somatic movement practice during which we will shake to music or sometimes, silence. Shaking, individually but as part of a group to ground us, can be healing as it is a natural way to relieve tension. You may choose to shake standing, seated, lying down or alternating between those depending on what your body needs in the moment. You can choose your own intensity, when to stop or when to keep going as you listen to your own body. While it is important to keep ourselves open to what, if anything, may arise emotionally, please only engage to the degree that you can still care for yourself. This is not a therapeutic space. The practice will start with a demonstration and it will end in silence. Dress comfortably and stay hydrated!

$10-$25

Sonic Immersion
2025-05-11 18:00 - 19:00
Come experience a multi-instrumental Sound Bath with composer-performer Sasha Bogdanowitsch. This full body listening experience will draw from Sasha’s extensive instrument collection of original and global winds, strings and percussion and his background of intensive musical studies of the world’s musics from countries such as India, Indonesia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Sasha will couple this with his unique vocals and electronics to create an ever evolving sonic tapestry that will immerse the listener in resonance and overtones; aiding all in their own sonic journey, relaxation, stress reduction and/ or meditation.

Participants will be free to recline (savasana pose), sit or stand as needed. Some yoga mats and blankets will be available but please bring whatever materials you need to feel warm and relaxed.

The event will last 60 minutes.

Come just for the Sonic Immersion or come early for Shake with Niki, and stay for both.

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Nectar of Silence -- Meditation Retreat with Harshada Wagner
2025-05-15 14:00 - 2025-05-19 14:00

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-05-18 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

With Facilitator: Alexandra Bayeva

First and Third Sundays

4:00-6:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays in Kingston!)

BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward

CI Lab 4-5pm

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

Internal States in Contact ImprovisationIn this class, we explore how internal states—such as focus, flow, distraction, and play—shape our movement experience and physical expression. Through guided exploration and simple movement tools, we’ll learn to recognize, navigate, and shift between these states. The aim is to support a more grounded, responsive, and expressive CI practice, deepening both self-awareness and connection with others.

Alexandra Bayeva is a professional dancer and a teaching artist originally from Belarus passionate about bringing art of self-expression through dance and movement to adults and children. Alexandra has been involved in contact improvisation practice for the last 18 years and taught CI at Dance Lab, Dance Beyond, Unifier Festival, Hudson Valley CI Jam, and various venues in NYC. Alexandra is the creator of “Let Your Body Talk”—a class that focuses on connection through dance and movement as well as an organizer of “Hiking and Dancing” events in Hudson Valley.https://alexbayeva.wixsite.com/dance

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Or if you prefer to pay cash at the door, send us an email to let us know you’re coming, so we can help you find your way to the studio.

Overnight guests welcome (with advance notice). Let us know if you want to make a longer visit to WildHeart… email contact@wildheartcenter.art

Weeks that we’re not Jamming @ WildHeart, Hudson Valley Contact Improv continues in Kingston. Email Hudsonvalleycontactimprov@gmail.com for more on the Kingston Jam

Location- This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info.

Canceled- Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-05-21 18:00 - 19:30
Yin-Restore with Niki (in-person or online)

May 21st & May 28th classes are canceled. See you in the fall 🙂

Touching Fat: Sensual Somatics for Fat People
2025-05-29 13:00 - 2025-06-01 16:00
Facilitated by Jules Pashall and Scarlet Tunkl, this retreat will explore and celebrate the magic of being present and embodied with fatness in community with other fat folx. We will use touch, movement, noise making and creative play to experience the sensuality inherent in our fat tissue. This retreat will uplift fatness as more than just a descriptor of bodies, but as an energy and access point to sensual presence. Each activity will pull inspiration from the formal qualities of fat: soft, lush, velvety, deep, full, whole. This retreat will have a special focus on touch so that we can learn new things about how we like to be loved, touched and tended.
